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all probability derived the name of Brigantia, one of the 

 oldest cities in this part of Europe. 



" Sir William Betham has, with great labour and ingenu- 

 ity, searched out and recorded, in his • Etruria Celtica,' the 

 various Irish authorities that refer to this building, and says, 

 that he has discovered references made toil in the Eugubian 

 Tables, which, he believes, speak of the early navigators 

 steering by the fire set up on the land when the ship left the 

 coast of Spain for the Turn or Came ; and in the same pas- 

 sage the triple-pointed hill of Cape Ortugal, the next most 

 prominent headland, appears to him to be referred to. 



" In another place Sir William Betham says : * The name 

 of Corunna and the Groyne are both derived from the 

 river upon which the town stands, — Garonne, the rough 

 or boisterous river, as the Garonne of France.' On this 

 passage, however, I may remark, that I cannot agree with 

 my brother Academician, for Corunna does not stand on any 

 river, and the only one in its neighbourhood, and that too 

 at a considerable distance across the harbour, is not the 

 Groyne or Garonne, but the Rio Burgo. The term Groyne, 

 however, is constantly applied by the early Spanish writers 

 to the Bay itself. 



" The term Corunna, or Colonna, may have been applied 

 in after-times by the Romans, from the circumstance of find- 

 ing the Tower or Column upon this headland, in the same 

 way that the appellation of Cape Colunna has been applied 

 to the island in the Grecian Archipelago on which was 

 erected the celebrated Suniam temple, the remarkable co- 

 lumns or pillars of which are still standing. 



" Again : * There is,' says Sir William, ' some incongru- 

 ity between the accounts of Mr. Wilde and Laborde. The 

 latter says, the lighthouse is situated " upon a very high 

 mountain, a league from the harbour ;" and Mr. Wilde has 

 stated its position to be " about a mile to the S. W. of the 

 town, on a rock by the water's edge." Any one, however, 



